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two million three hundred thousand dollare.
Bee its fire ornamented gates, the keys In
trusted to an officer for only ooeday l-st the
temptation t ipiatcl the
treasure* tn too great for him: its eninv
mingling f blue and ca let and gre-n. a ..
the walls abloom with utm *■ i
ttoognt and coloring. \ udsr .s an -nn -
to a gydlern cahe-1 **V. -tory ffiti ut
■Wings." So many of the tr.umphs of the
wor.t bad been folio* .and : y defeat that too
Gre-u wished in marble :• indicate that
Victory for A then a had 00-ne r.erer again
to fly away, and hence i-. temi-leAo ••Vic
tory Without Wing"—a eai ,r of marble,
enow-white and glittering. Yonder behold
the pedestal of Agrippa, feet
high and twelve fee: square. But the over*
shadowing wonder of ail the bill is the
Perth at. on. In days when money was tea
times more valuable than now it cot
four million til hundred thousand dol-
lars. It is a Doric granden-,
baring forty-six p-!umna, each column
thirty-four feet high and six feet
two inches in diameter. Wondrous inter
columinations * Painted porues, archi
traves tinged with ochre, shields of gold
hungup, line# of most delicate curve, az
ures of horses and men and women and
gods, oxen on the way to sacrifice, statues
of the deities Dionysius, Prometheis,
Bermes, Demeler, Zeus, Hera, Pose.doo; in
one frieze twelve divinities, centaurs in
battle: weaponry from Marathon . chariot
of night; chariot of the morning; horses of
the sun, the fates, the furies: statue of Jup
iter holding in his right baud the thunder -
bolt, silver-tooted Chair in which Xerxes
watched the battle of calami* only a few
ernes away. Here is the ooiosial statue of
Minerva in full armor, eyes of gray
oolored ’stone; figure of a spniax on bar
head, griffins by her side i which are lions
with eagle • beak , spear in one band, statue
of Liberty in the other, a snieid carved with
battle scenes, aid even toe slippers sculpt
ured, and uei on with thongs of gold. Far
oat at sea the sailors saw uu statue of
Minerva rising high above all the templet,
glittering in the sun. Here are statues of
equestrians, statue of a lioness, aod there
are toe graces, and wonder a horse in bronze.
There is a statue sid in the time of Augus
tus to have of its own accord turned around
from east to west and spit hi od; statue*
made out of shields conquered in battle;
statue of Apollo, the expeder of locusts;
statue of Anacreon, drunk and singing,
status of Olyinpoiorus, a Greet,
memorable for ’ the fact that
be was cheerful when others were cast
down, a tm.it worthy of sculpture. But
walk on and around the Aor po.ia, and
yonder you tee s statue of Hygeda, and the
statue cf Theseus fighting the Minotaur,
aod the statue of Hercules s-tying serpents.
No wonder that Petrociu* sail it was easier
to find a god than a man in Adieus. O, the
Acropolis.' The most of its temples and
statnea made from the marble quarries of
Mount Penteiicum, a little way from the
city. I have here co my table a block of
the Parthenon made out of this rnarbie,
and on it is the sculpture at Phidias. I
brought it from the Acropolis. This
specimen has on it the dost of ages, aid the
marks of explosion and battle, but you can
ge: from it some idea of the delicate luster
of tbe Acropolis when it was covered with
a mountain of this marble cat into all the
exquls.ie shapes that genius could contrive,
anl stmed with silver and aflame with
gold. The Acropolis in the morning light
of those student* most have shone as
though it were an aerolite cast off from the
noonday sun. The temples mutt have
looked like petrified foam. The whole
Acropolis must have seemed like tbe white
breakers of the great ocean of time.
Bat we cannot shop 1 nger here, for there
is s hill near by of more interest, though it
has not o e chip of marble bo suggest a
statue or a temple. We hasten down the
Acropolis to ascend tbe Areopagus, or Mare
Hi-1, as it 1* coded. It took only about three
minute* to walk the distauoe, and tbe two
tail tops are so near that what 1 said in re
ligious discourse 00 Mars Hill wm heard
distinctly by some English gentlemen oo
the Acropolis. This Mare Hill is a rough
pile of rcok fifty feet high. It was famous
Jong before New Trenamed times. The
Persia.es eas.iy and terribly assaulted tbe
Acrc’Doie from this hill top. Here as
sembled trie coart to try criminal*. It
was held in the night time so that tbe
faces of tbe judges ocraid not be seen,
cor the facet of tbe lawyers who made
tbe plea, aod so, instead of a trial being
one of emotion, it must have been one of
cool justice. But, there was one occasion
on this hill memorable above ail others. A
little mao, physically weak, and hi* rhe
toric described by himself as contemptible,
had by hi* sermon* rocked Athens' with
commodon, and he was summoned either
by writ of law or hearty invitation to come
upon tsat puipit of rocs and give a speci
men of bis theology. Ail the wiseacres of
Athens turned out and turned np to hear
him. Tbe most venerable of them sat in
an amphitheater, tbe granite seats of
which are still visible, but tbe other people
swarmed on ail aides of tbe hill aod at
the bate of it to bear this man. whom
tome called a fanatic, and others called
amad-cap. and others a blasooemer, and
others styled contemptuously “this fellow/’
Paul arrived in answer to the writ or invi
tation and confronted them and gave them
the biggest dose that mortals ever took. He
was so built that nothing could scare him,
and as for Jupiter and Athania, the god
and tnegoddess, whose images were in full
tight cm tbe adjoining hill, be bad not so
much regard for them as he had for the
ant tuat was crawling iu the sand under his
feet. In that audience were trie first orator*
of trie world, and they had voices like flutes
when they were passive and like trumpets
when they were aroused and I think they
laughed in the sleeves of their gowns as
this lusiguiflcaut-looking man rtse to
speak. In that audience were
Bchoiiaits, who knew everything
or thought they did, and from the end of
the longest hair on the top of tfce.r crani
um* to the end of the nail on the longe-it
toe. they were stuffed with by per criticism
aud they leaned hack with a supercilious
look to listen. As in 1889, I stood on that
rock where Paul stood, and a slab of which
I brought from Athens by consent of the
queen though Mr. Tricoupis, the prime
minister, and bad placed in yonder memo
rial waU, I read the whole story, Bible in
band.
What I have so far said iu this discourse
was necessary iu order that you may under
stand the boldness, the defiance, the holy
recklessness, the magnificence of Paul’s
speech. Tbe first thunderbolt he launched
at tbe opposite hill—tbe Acropolis—that
moment all aglitter with idols aud temple*.
He ones out, “God who made the world."
Why, they thought that Prometheus made
It, that Mercury made it, that Apollo made
It, thas Poseidon made it, that Eros made
It, that Pandrocus made it, that Boreas
made it, that it took all the gods of tbe
Parthenon, yea, all the gods and god
desses of the Acropolis to make it, aud
here stands a man without any ecclesias
tical title, neither a D. D., nor even a
reverend, deoiaring that the world was
made by tbe Lord of heaven nnd earth, and
heuoe tbe inference that all the splendid
oovering of tbe Acropolis, so near that tbe
people standing on tbe steps of the Parthe
non could hear it, was a deoeit, a falsehood,
a sham, a blasphemy. Look at tha faces of
his auditors; they are turning pale, and
then red, and then wrathful. There had
been several earthquakes in that region;
but that was the severest shock those men
had ever felt. Tbe Persians bad bom
barded the Acropolis from the bights of
Mars Hill, but this Pauliue bombardment
was greater and more terrific.
“What,” said his hearers, "have
we been hauling with many yokes of
oxen for centuries these blocks from the
quarries of Mount Pentelicura, and tvno
we bad our architects putting up the, ■
structures of unparalleled spletid u, ail
have we bad the greatest of all sculptor.
Phidias, with bis men, chiselling away .
those wondrous pediments, and cut tin.
away at these freizes, and have we luxe
the nation’s resources to the utmost, now m
be told that those Btatuee see nothing, bear
nothing, know nothing?” O, Paul, stop for
a moment and give these startled and over
whelmed auditor* time to catch their
breath! Make a rhetorical pause! Take a
look around you at the interesting land
i scape enA give your hearers time bo re
! cover: So. he does not make eve* a
per. and. or si much as a eoioo or aam
ooiou. but Isuicbaatae seco-. i tnmJerboJ*
• i-rt if ter tie first, and m the same bream
-son to sty God “dwe>th ok in tem
-- yi- with hands." O. Paul! Is nek
Wit. : ■ re in the Partri-r .n. or more in the
T —~jm. or more in the Ereehtheom. or
■a - -n tie emile of Zeus Olympias than
13 toe o;*' air. more than on toe hill where
we ere s i silting, mire than on Mount
rival -tt- out yonder, from which the nee
ft. the.." : >uey * “Ne more ~ respondsPau
"He dwelieth not in tetnp.r* made with
ha da'
Bnt surely the preacher on the pulr.lt of
rock on More H U wiii stop tow. His andi
etoe can endure no more. Two thunder
b its are enough. No, in the tame breath
he launches tbe third thunderb it, which, to
them, is more fiery, more terrible, more de
mo.isn.tg tta . the others, as be cries oat:
“Ha h made of one blood all nations." O, :
Paul: you forget you an s;easing to the
proudes: and meet exclusive am; nee in tbe ;
w.irld. Do not say "of one blood." Y. u
cam t mean that. Hal Socrates, and Plato
and Demosthenes, and Solon, and Lycorgus,
and Draco, and Sophocles, a .and Euripedes,
and .-Each yin*. and Pariciea, and Phidias,
and Miinadas t. od ;us* like the r swats,
like the Turks, like the Egyptians, like the i
common herd of humatUy! ••Yes," says
Paul, “of one blond, ail naUooa”
fi are! y that must be the closing paragraph
cf the senna His auditors must be let up
from the n-rvous strain. Paul r.as smashed
the Acropolis and smashed the national
pnde of the Greeks, and wuat more can he
say I Those Grecian orators, starring on
that place, aiwars closed their alTrusses
with Something sublime and climacteric, a
peroration, and Paul is going to give them
a perorati -u wh.ch will eclipse n power and
majesty ail that he has yet said. Heretofore
he Las hurei one thunderbolt at a lime:
row he will close by hurling two at ocoe.
Toe little, old man, under tie power of his
speech has straightened hunseif up, and tbe
stoop tas g -oe oat of his saou ders, and be
looks abo.t three feet taller
than *tea he began, and his
eyes, which were quiet, became two
flames of fire, and nis face, wh:cb was
calm in the intrriuct on, now aewets a
whirlwind of emot.on as he ties the two
thunderbolts together with a cord of inoon -
suma.-ie courage and whirls them at the
j crowd now standing or sitting aghast—tbe
' two thunderbolt* of resurrection and lari
judgment. His closing words were: “be
cause be hath app iited a day in which be
wiii jodge the world in righteousne* by
that man wnom he hath ordained, whereof
be hath given ass trance to all men in that
be hath rased him from the dead. ’ Re
member those thoughts were to them novel
aod provocative; that Christ, the despised
Xazarene. would come Vo be their judge,
and they should have to get up out of tb >ir
cemeteries to s;and before him aod take their
eternal doom. Migctiest burst of elocution
ary power ever heard. Tbe ancestors of some
of taoee Greeks r.ad beard Demosthenes in
bis ration on tbe Crown, tad heard .Hschi
r,es in his speeches oga.i.-st Timarcuos and
Ctesipbon, had heard Plato in his great er
go nr.ee t for immortality of tbe soul, had
heard Socrates on his death-bed, suicidal
cup of hemlock m hand, leave bis Hearers
in emotion too great to bear, had in the
theater cf Dionysius, at the foot of the
Acropolis Its ruins of its piled-up amphi
theater and the marble floor of its orches
tra atUJ there>, seen enacted the tragedies of
Juschrlus and Sophocles, but neither had
the ancestors of these Grecians on Mars
bill, or themselves, ever beard or witnessed
such tornadoes of moral power as that with
which Paul now whelmed his hearers. At
fehcae two thoughts of Resurrection and
Judgment the audience sprang to their
feet. Some moved they adjourn
to some other day to hear mire
on the same theme, but others would
have torn the sacred orator to
pieces. The record says: “Some mocked.”
1 suppose it means that they mimicked tbe
solemnity of his voice, that they took off
his impassioned gesticulation, and they
cried out; “Jew! Jew! Where did
you study rhetoric ! You ought to hear
our orators speak! You had better go back
to your b urine is of tent-making. Our
Lycurgut knew more in a minute than you
will xnow in a month. Say, where did you
get that crooked back, and those weak eyes
from* Ha! Ha! You try to teach us
Grecians! What nonsense you talk about
when you speak of resurrection and judg
ment. Xow, little old man, climb down
tbe side of Mars Hill and get out of sight as
soon a* possible.” “ Some mocked. ” But,
that scene adjourned to the day of which
the sacred orator had spoken—the day of
resurrection and judgment.
As in Athens, that evening in 1889, we
climbed down the pile of slippery rocks,
where all this had occurred, on our way
back to our hotel I stood between the
Acropolis and Mars Hill in tbe gathering
shadows of eventide, I seemed to hear those
two hills in Bubllme and awful oonverse. “I
am chiefly of tbe past,” said the Acropolis.
“I am ohiefly of trie future,” replied Mars
Hill. The Acropolis said: “My orators are
dead. My lawgivers are dead. My poets
are dead. My architects are dead. My
sculptors are dead. lam a monument of
the dead past. I shall never again near a
song sung. I will never again see a oolum-i
lifted. I will never again behold a goddess
orowued.” Mars Hill responded: “I, too,
have had a history. I bad oa my nights
warriors who will never again
unsheath the sword, and judges who will
never again utter a doom, and orators who
will never again make a plea. But my in
fluence is to be more in the future than it ever
was in tne past. The words that missionary,
Paul, uttered that exciting day in the hear
ing of the wisest men and tbe populace on
my rocky shoulders, have only begun their
majestic roll; the brotherhood of man, and
tbe Christ of God, and the preroration of
resurrection and last judgment with which
the Tarsian orator closed his sermon that
day amid the mocking crowd, shall yet revo
lutionize the planet. O. Acropolis! I have
stood here long enough to witness that your
gods are no gods at aiL Your Boreas could
not control tho winds. Your Neptune could
not manage the sea Your Apollo never
evoked a musical note. Your God Ceres
never grew a harvest. Your goldess of
wisdom, Minerva, never knew the Greek
alphabet. Your Jupiter could not handle
the lightnings. But the God whom I ero
ded tued on toe day when Paul preached be
fore the astounded assemblage on my rough
hlghts, is the God of music, the God of wis
dom, the God of power, the God of mercy,
the God of love, the God of storms, tho God
of sunshine, the God of the land, and the
God of the sea, the God over all, blessed
forever." Then, the Acropolis spake and
said, as though in self-defense; “My Plato
argued for the immortality of the soul,
and my Soorates praisod virtue, and my
Milttades nt Marathon drove back the
Persian oppressors.” “Yes,” said Mars
Hill, “your Plato laboriously guess-d at the
immorality of the soul, but my Paul, do
vinely inspired, declared it as a fact straight
from God. Your Socra es praised virtue
but expired as a suicide. Your Miitiadas
wai brave against eart dy foes, yet died
from a wound ignomii ouslygo ten 111 aftei
defe it. But uiy Paul chaiie iged aii earta
and all hell with this battle-shout: ‘IVe
wrestle not against flesh aud blood, hut
against principalities, against powers,
agai st the rulers of the daricness of this
world, agaimt spiritual wickedness in high
places, aud then on tl e 29th of June, in tho
year 06. on the road to Ostia, af.er the
eword of the headsman had given one keen
strike, took the crown of martyrdom.’ ”
After a moment's silence by both hills,
the Acropolis moaned out in tbe darkness:
“Alas! Alas!” and Mars Hill responded
“H-i-ariiiab! Hosannah!” Then the voices
of both hills became indistinct, and as I
pn-'s-d on and away in the twilight I
r- rued to hear only two sounds—a frag-
I * t of l’entellcon marble from the archi
. 1/< of the AcroDohs dropping down on
rui s of a suatterod i-101, and the other
- 'i-ds cuel to come from the reck oa
ar- iiili, from which we had just do
sceiided. But we were by this time so far
oif that tho fragments of sentences w >re
smaller when dropping from Mars Hill
than were the fragments offal e i marble
on the Acropolis, and I couid only hear
parts of disconnected sojtences wafted on
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1891.
tbe night air—“ God who made tbe world"
—“of ooe blood ail nati -os"—"appointed a
day on which he will judge the world'—
•rawed him from the dead."
As that night in Athens I put my tired
beai on my pt-low, and the exciting scene*
1 of the day passed through my mind. I
thought on the erne subject on which as a
boy I made my eonuneocemeot speech in
XibloH th-aire oa graduation day from
the Xew York University, vix: “Themorai
effects of seupture and architecture," bat
farther than 1 coaid have thought in boy
hood, I tn ught to Athaot tha: night that
the moral effect* of archi:ecture aid sculpt
ure dspeed on what you do in great buildings
after they are pa; up, and upon the char
acter of the men wnoee form* yon cat la
the marble yea I thiugbtthst nigh: what
struggles the martyrs went through in order
that in oar time toe gospel might have full
swing: and I thought tha: night what
a brainy religion it most te that
could absorb a hero like h,m whom we
have coraidered to-day, a man the superior
of the wsole human race, the infidels bat
pigxiee cc homunculi compered with him;
sad I thought what a rapturous considera
tion it is that through the same grace that
saved Paul we shall confront this great
apostle, and shall have the opportunity,
amid tbe familiarities cf the skies, c<f asking
him wnat was the greatest occasion of all
his Ufa He may say: “Tbe shipwreck of
Mel:ta." He may say: “Tne not at Ephe
sus." He may say: “My lart walk out cn
tbe real to Ostia " Bui I tcink he wi,l say:
“The day I stood on Mars Hill addressing
the indignant Are pag.tes, and looking off
upon the towering form of the g -ideal
Minerva, and the majesty of the Parthenon,
and all the brilliant d.vinities of the Acrop
olis Ttaiaoco.nt in the Bible was true.
My rp.nt was st.rred within me when I saw
tne city woolly given up to idolatry."
COLUMBIA'S CiSAL
Its Construction Commenced In 1823.
Its Water rover.
Columbia, 8. C., Xov. 22. —The Colombia
canal, an actcunt of the opening of which
was telegraphed tc the Mo3.ving News
yesterday, was begun about tbe year 1828.
It was then a small affair about twelve feet
wide. It came psrtiaily into use In 1844.
After the war it was purchased by Gov.
Sprague of Rhode Isiaud. He went into
bankruptcy and toe state took p ssession of
the proper ty, aid in !"v®2 r gan to complete
it. In 1887 the city of Columbia secured
the canal from the state, and f2X1,000 worth
of b>nd§ were immediately floated and the
work of completing it began.
Cap:. Byron Holley, the distinguished
Xew York engineer, whoso successful con
struction of the Augusts canal and other
important works, have gained him a high
reputation throughout tbe state, was
chosen supervising e .gineer.
The water power developed is secured
through the diversion of the waters of
Broad river, a stream which may be relied
upon to furnish J upward of 8,0(X) cubic feet
of water per second at all times The diver
sion is effected by the construction of a
dam across said river at a point about two
miles above the city, and of a canal with
the following minimum dimensions : Sur
face width, 150 feet: bottom width, 110
feet, and depth 10 feet. The water is taken
into the oanal from the poud formed by tne
dam, through a series of bulk-head open
ings governed by slide gate* operated by
machinery. In connection with the bulk
head masonry there Is constructed a lift
lock, by means cf which boats ninety feet
ling, fifteen feet wide and drawing five feet
of water may be passed from tbe canal to
the pond above, or vice versa. The line of
canal follows along the high lands adjacent
to the Broad and CoDgaree rivers for a dis
tance of about miles, where it will
unite with tbe Congaree by means of a
series of lift locks.
THE XATCRAL FALL.
The natural fall between the location of
the dam and the final outfall is feet.
The canal will be able to furnish 13,1)00 net
horse power, the largest developed water
power in the United States.
The canal lock is sixteen feet wide in the
clear ai.d ninety-five feet between the gates,
enabling boats with os large a carrying
capacity as 150 tons to pass in and out of
the canal. The masonry of the bulkhead
and loexs Is magnificently constructed, and
is unsurpassed by any similar work iu this
section of the country.
The canal is now owned and will be op
erated by the Columbia Water Power Com
pany, the chief stockholders of which are
Massachusetts and New York capitalists
and mill men. Several sites for factories
have already been contracted for, and the
canal company will immediately begin tbe
erection of a $1,000,000 cotton mill on the
bank of the canal.
HH WAS SAVED 3Y HIS WIFE.
Dr. George Buc filer Dragged From
the Jaws of Death.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
New York, Nov. 17.—The venerable and
eccentric Dr. George Buchler, a retired
physician, who lives at 851 West Forty
fifth street, lies critically ill at Cranston’s
near Newburg, and his son, Dr. Augustus
Buchler, to whom tbe old gentleman long
ago turned over bis lucrative practice, has
been called upon to perform the profes
sional duty of amputating his father’s left
arm.
He had been for two week* with his de
voted wife at tho Stevens house, Crans
ton’s, and they had decided to leave yester
day on the West Shore road for Philadel
phia, where Mrs. Bucbler’s brother, Mr.
Hexamer, lives.
As they were being driven to the depot,
Dr. Buchler became excited, and. rapping
on the window of the hack, urged the driver
to hurry, lest they miss the train.
They arrived all in good time at the
station, and Dr. Buchler paced up and
down the platform, his arm firmly clapped
by the loving hand of his venerable wife.
As the train drew up at the station the
old mao dropped his sacbel and either fell
or throw himself off the platform, and be
fore the slowly advancing train.
Buohler clung desperately to his arm,
and thus probably saved his life, but she
was struck on the forehead by the cross
beam of tbe engine, and a great gash was
cut over her eyes. The doctor’s left arm
wont under tbe wheels and was crushed.
The doctor aud bis wife were carried into
the station. Local physicians stitched the
wound in Mrs. Buchler’* forehead, and did
their best to ease the dootor.
A telegram to Dr. Augustus Buchler
called him to the side of his parents. Dr.
F. Lange accomnanied him to Cranston’s,
and they found it necesssary to amputate
the arm, but the shock and bruises to his
head and body may prove too much for his
worn out vitality.
TO SAVE HIS FAMILY.
A Memphis Felon Wfio Has a Brother
in the United i-tates Senate.
Memphis, Tens., Nov. 22.—Several
months ago a well-dressed and intelligent
young mm from the north was arrested
here for robbing the rooms of several citi
zens and stealing a large number of en
velopes from a business house. Yesterday
he was tried ou four of the six indictments
found against him and got six years in tbe
penitentiary. To-morrow he will be tried
on the iwo remaining indictments. He gave
his name as H. W. Livingston, but it is
thought that the name is assumed. He re
fused to ta'k about it, but a Memphis man,
who is loss secretive, says that Livingston
is highly connected and his a brother in the
United Stales Senate.
MAKC KLL A SK M BIIICII.
the celebrated vocalist, hivhly recommends the
Soden Mineral Pastilles: “I cannot help inform
ing you of the splendid effect of the Soden Min
eral Pastilles in the case ot vocal indisposition.
Their influence on the entire organism is so ex
c -llent that 1 continually use them, and I must
warmly recommend them to all my colleagues ”
Tee I ‘gen line" So 1-n Paslill-s must have the
signature of “Fim-r & Mendelson Cos,” Sole
Age ts, around each box.
PLO&ID VS PROGRESS.
A Tour Over Mr. Flsger'i Railway
rite Value to tbs State.
St. Arecmvi, Fla.. Xnv. 22. —A re
cent tour ever H*nrr JL Fuji <r railway
lines showed ms:: improvement over last
year*! work, which speaks volumes tn pra.se
of Supt. W. L Crawford and his assistants
It it nn-enassary to refer to he condition of
the linos betw-e . ksonville. St. Augus
tine and Palates is thousand* apprec ate
that they are as good in cvnslruction, and in
rolling stock os any otoer Florida
roads. Cooseqie-tly they are equal to
the best opera:-; roads in tie country. The
progress made by new settlers, wnich In
many ways the o! i-timer has caajht on to,
is far bevood SEyvCtatkana, particularly at
the new station. Hostings. Here is found
the first practice, rice fields In this c ecu in.
A fair grade cro: was narvaried this year
and shipped to the millers at Savannah.
Tbe several hundred acres cultivated will
be iccreaaai next -os>n to the thousands.
Mr. Hasting-, who ha* earned tbe litis of
Farmer Torn, aril! have the first strawber
ries on the tab!-* of the Fiagier hote'.t, his
cucumbers will astonish the visitors, while
hi* mushrooms will make fat and gouty the
emaciated, but Far ner Tom's bobby is rice:
and with sugar to follow be will set an ex
ample wnich wi.l awoken all other settlers
to activity, an 1 make land that is looked
•upon as worthless very valuable.
FLAGLER ? EXPENDITURES.
The famous U. J. White* farms, also those
of tne Merrifleiis. aijoin Hastings' and a-e
irrigated by artesian walla A large park in
which tbe traveler can be shown the flow
ers of Florida u teng made ready for tbe
mcreduloat to admire. It is hinted that
Mr. Flagler's money is being dropped at j
Hastings, Mr. Flagler see* that in showing
what can be don- by judicious labor any
where, can be improved upon in Florida,
and while he may not “drop
money” as an inducement, or bonus,
be does not hesitate in setting settlers an
example that is certain to be helpful to
them. This is clearly shown by his great
outlay in baildiig t e Ban Mateo extension
of some five miles of a No. 1 railroad from
East Palates. If the authorities would do
as much for the country people in the way
of constructing agon roads the farmers
would be happy.;
THE WHITE ROAD.
Some three years ago Mr. Flazler bought
what was then known as the “White rail
road," operated between Paiatlca and Day
tona, in all about sixty miles. It had
32-pound rails !s.d on sappling ties. This
was plenty good enough for the returns ex
pected in those days, but not the progres
sive nature of the purchaser who at once
began laying 58-pound steel rails on 9 inch
faced ties. The money and time wasted in
climbing hills and out of hollows was ex
pended in cutting through hills sod in
bridging ravines, and as fast as heart ties
can be procure! they are replacing what
remains of the “ White” outfit.
The San Mateo extension brings tbe peo
ple of that thrifiy neighborhood into clcse
relation with t. Augustine and Jackson
ville, and the markets for their oranges and
truck stuffs. Of oranges there will beßo,-
000 boxes this year, principally from the
groves of Max*e'l and Anderson, New
York; James illnter, H. B. Baliev, and
Nelson Bailer & Sons of Lowell, Mass.;
Tingley & Rowell, a H. Bacon, A. A.
Kendal! cf Bestir,, Mass., and Mrs. J. P.
Chester, Capt. H. R. Lyle, William E.
Stanton and George W. Lyle of Ban Mateo.
INCREASED BUSINESS.
There Is a noticeable increase of business
activity all along the east oonst line. At
Neoga. a lumber station, the Florida Land
and Produce Company is erecting a com
modious storehouse, and will follow it with
several smaller buildings for employe*. The
famous Harwo i groves, etc., have tbe
choice of either Neoga or Tomoka stations,
and if the county commissioners would en
courage the construction of better wagon
roads the prosperity of tbe farmers would
increase ten fold, and they would get some
return for the taxes they pay.
The travelers who have heretofore taken
much satisfaction in referring to “tbe
cypreas swamps” will be greatly disap
pointed on finding themselves and tbe
swamps left. Tbe draining of the swamp
has been accomplished by Supt. Crawford
cutting good wide ditches, which are drain
ing the surface water off the lovely looking
cypress and palmetto hummocks that
stretch along the railroad and add so much
to the beauty and value of property,
especially from Ormond to Daytona.
THE BARLY SETTLERS.
It la strange bow little is known about the
history of the early settlers of this section
where the adventurous and as much de
spised Turnbull “worked bis white slaves. ”
The red brother evidently made it hot for
Turnbull, and nothing but the vine-covered
remains of chimneys mark the spot of so
much misery and reputed profllgaoy of the
wild buccaneer.
From the indications see a Turnbull was
in the sugar business, and had those who
remained in the neighborhood followed hU
example in that particular there would be
more sugar and rice in Volusia and 8t
Johns counties than there is. How many of
the wayfarers on the Halifax river know of
the causeway presumably built by Turn
bull from the west shore down across
the marsh lands for a distance
of seven miles to the Tomoko
river, built to facilitate the loading of ships
lying outside with the products of the in
terior. The causeway is substantially
built with shells and coquina and possibly
the bone 9of many manacled and whip
driven unfortunate*. The causeway is be
ing reclaimed by Messrs. Price & Anderson
of the Ormoud.
INCREASED STEAMBOAT FACILITIES.
Increased steamboat facilitiea from Or
mond to Rockledge, in daily boats, and
with additional boats from Rockledge to
Jupiter Inlet, will causa things to hum on
the Indian river, and those who go to Hali
fax to escape the chilling blasts of the north
can sit in the lap of the semi-tropics with
out having to poke the Sre. General Pas
senger Agent G. D. Ackerlv of the Jackson
ville, Tampa and Key West system is
about to spring a scheme which
will insure improved servioe on all
competing transportation lines. The Flori
da Central and Peninsular, and the Plan t
system are also making the other lines
hustle, and if either gets left it will be for
the want of a rush to Florida.
There is at last a possibility of the widen
ing of the guage of the Charlotte harbor
division of the Florida Southern rail way
this winter.
SHE GRAPPLED THE BUR3LAR.
Plucky Mrs. Thurston is A’most Mur
dered by a Negro Housebreaker.
Chicago. Nov. 22. —About 1 o’clock yes
terday morning Mrs. Dr. E. H. Thurston of
3018 Indiana avenue was awakened by a
slight noise in her bedroom. Upon open
ing her eyes she saw a big,burly negro stand
ing at her bureau quietly examiuing her
jewelry and other valuables. She watched
him for a few moments and then jumped
from her bed and made a spring at the in
truder. She did not make any outcry, and
her husband, who was sleeping in an
adjoining room, was not awakened. The
negro sprang through the open door and
dashed down the stairway. Mrs.
Tho nton, with wonderful pluck,
not only followed him, but seized him by
the hair when the dining-room was readied
and began to scream for help. The burgiar
picked up a heavy silver castor and began
beating her over the head, but she clung to
him, and had not Dr. Thuston been
awakened and come upon the soene the
brute would probably have taken the
woman’s life. He sprang tnrough a win
dow and made bis escape, but not until a
brother of the doctor had got a good look
at him.
Late yesterday afternoon the police ar
rested l harles Johnson. a negro living at
1579 State street, and he was identified by
D Thurston s brother as the burglar and
wouid-be murderer.
Mrs. Thurston is iii a serious condition in
eouseqoonc of her injuri-s and the uerrous
shuck to which she was subjected.
j I OMANCB OP A ViaolNlA ESTATE.
Granted for Bravery on Many a He vo
lutionary Field of Battle.
Parkersburg, W. Va., Nov. 22.— The
recording within the past few dart in
Kanawha county of two deeds for 923,70*
acres of land iu this state recalls the inci
dents in the life of Gen. Swam, whose lands
they were a century ago, and closes an
interesting sen=s of everts. Gen. Swan
was a Boston merchant of prominence
when tbe war of American indepen fence
tegan and called him from his office to tbe
field. He fought with such honor that he
gamed tbe commendations of Washington
and Lafayette and earned the titie of major
general
With the coming of peace and the debts
incident tnereto Gen. again showed
his patriotism by giving most generously of
his property, beggaring hunseif in so doing.
In return fortais the House of Burgesses of
Virginia deeded to him 2,500,000 acres of
land in Virginia and Kentucky, part of
which being In Lincoln, Logan,'McDowell,
Mercer and Wyoming counties of what is
now West Virginia.
Gan. Swan then conceived the Dlanof
making of this wilderness one vast pleasure
groued, where he might end his days amid
a splendor t-at would rival that of the east.
To carry out his project he went to France,
and consulted with what nobility he had
acquaintance. Receiving the entree Into
royal society, be induced its members to
bay largely of the stock he had issued for
his scheme, and nobles, earls and dukes
rivaled each other in their liberal pur
chases.
In the meantime dissipation brought to
Gen. Swan many creditors, and he found
hunseif a debtor to the amount of 5,000,00(1
franca and without credit. His creditors
demanded a mortgage on his vast estates in
America, and when he refused they threw
him Into prison, where fourteen years be
enjoyed luxury after luxury, until with
freedom be fouud himself a friendless beg
gar upon the streets cf Paris. He soon died
a tragic death, and when the news reached
this country the legislature of Virginia ap
pointed John Dumas of Philadelphia trustee
to look after tbe interests of his French
heirs.
In 183S Dumas died, having burdened the
estate for $1,000,000, and in addition adowtd
it to become forfeited to the state for taxes.
In 1855 Jasiab Randall, father of Hon. Sam
uel J. Randall, was made trustee, and ten
years later, when be died, his son Josiah
was appointed in his stead. He proved a
failure, and in 188(3 E. G. Butterick of
Charleston succeeded him.
In tbe meantime squatters had settled
upon the laid, and many conflicting claims
made it difficult for Butterick to bring mat
ters to a settlement. In June, 1889, how
ever, his report was made to tbe United
States court in session here, and a decree
was rendered directing John R. Read of
Philadelphia to subject the lands to sale.
The heirs were the purchasers, aud the deeds
just recorded, after a century of contention,
places the tides to tbe lauds in new hands.
This territory is now being rapidly de
veloped, and the dream of Gen. Swan bids
fair to be realized, though not in the way
he anticipated.
LOVE’S HARD LUCK.
Wife and Children Die and the Prop
erty All Swept Away.
Wichita, Kan., Nov. 22.— There arrived
in this city Sunday morning a man who has
bad such an expensnoe that be is completely
disheartened, and will probably be an out
cast and tramp the res: of his days.
Henry Love came to this state three years
ago with a few dollars which he had saved by
great frugality while working on a farm iu
Ohio. He bad enough to get a farm of 160
acres by [laying part down and giving a
mortgage for the rest. He saved ai,d
stinted, working bard early and late, but
THE CROPS WENT BACK
On him every year, and he gradually got
behind with the interest and lived from
band to mouth, eking out a bare existence.
He bad a wife and two small children, and
they suffered with him, adding to bis own
troubles by the sight of theirs. Last year
betu children died, aad this spring every
thing looked well for a fine crop, the first
since he came to the state. He had his
farm in corn and it bore well.
When the proper time came he out his
Corn and had it standing in shooks, waiting
for cold weather, when he expected to
gather the ears. Go Oct. 2U a prairie fire
swept over that port of the state and Love
aad his wife went out to fight it away from
his farm. The flames spread with
FRIGHTFUL RAPIDITY
And they worked hard, but with no avail,
for the Are reached a shock of corn, and it
burned like tinder, spreading to the rest so
fiercely that it could not be stopped. Dur
ing the excitement the dress of Mrs. Love
caught fire, and the poor woman was so
badly burned that she died next day. The
fire spread over the entire place, and Love
saw himself bereft of wife and home in a
short time, just when ha thought things
were beginning to look bright for him.
He loet everything and then gave up. He
abandoned the farm and says that be is
through trying to live by working, and does
not care what becomes of him.
LEFT A BABY AS SECURITY.
How a Hungry Woman Seen red a
Meal Without Paying for It.
Chicago, Nov. 22.—A well-dressed young
woman bearing a baby in her arms entered
a restaurant opposite the union depot last
evening, and, orderi eg supper, ate as
though famished.
Saying she had forgotten her purse in the
depot, she left the baby as security and
went out. She failed to return and investi
gation showed pinned to the baby’s dress
the words in the Norwegian language:
“Please care for me. I have no father or
mother.” The baby was sent to Si. Vincent's
home. The police are looking for the
woman.
“ MEDICAL.
Dyspepsia
Makes the lives of many people miserable,
causing distress after eating, sour stomach,
sick headache, heartburn, loss of appetite,
a faint," all gone’’feeling, bad taste, coated
_ . . tongue, and Irregularity of
®*Stf6SS thebowels. Dyspepsia does
After not Bet well of itself. It
Ft tin tv re( l uires careful attention,
bating an jj a remedy like Hood's
Sarsaparilla, which acts gently, yet efficiently.
It tones tho stomach, regulates the diges
tion, creates a good ap- Ci*.
petite, banishes headache, ®\ c K
i and refreshes the mind. Headach©
“ I liaTe been troubled with dyspepsia. I
| had but little appetite, and what I did eat
Heart- distressed me, or did me
. little good. After eating I
DUrn would have a faint or tired,
all-gone feeling, as though I had not eaten
anything. My trouble was aggravated by
my business, painting. Last
spring I took Hood's Sar- ®OUT
saparllla, which did me an Stomach
immense amount of good. It gave me an
appetite, and my food relished and satisfied
the craving I had previously experienced.”
George a. Page, Watertown, Mass.
Hood’s Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggist*, gl; six for f5. Prepared only
by C. I. HOOD <fc CO., Apothecaries,Lowell, Mass.
ICO Doses One Dollar
SPECIAL VOTICJES.
SULLIVAN'S BEsmitAVT,
110 and 112 Bryan Street .
Northern and western meats, game of all
kinds in season, Blue Point oysters and Little
Neck clams, lobsters, soft shell crabs and Span
ish mackerel by every steamer.
MEDICAL
r SIMMONS 1
Do you want to purify the system! J
Do you want to get rid of Biliousness*
Do you want something to strengthen you?
Do you want a good appetite?
Do you want to get rid of Nervousness?
Do you want good digestion !
Do you want to sleep well!
Do you want to build up your constitution?
Do you want a brisk and vigorous feeling!
If you do, take
SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOR.
An Efficacious Remedy..— I can recommend
as an efficacious remedy for all diseases of the
Liver, Heartburn and Dyspepsia Simmons Uver
Regulator.—Lewis O. Wunder. I?t3 Master St.,
Assistant Postmaster, Philadelphia
FUNERALIK V FT AXIOMS.
SOFGE.—Tbe friends and acquaintance of
I* V. Sledge. Mrs. S. L. Beckwith and Mr.
and Mrs. Theodore W. Bofge, are respectfully
icTited to attend the funeral of Caul, infant
son of Mr. and Mrs. Sofge. at residence of Mrs.
50 street, THIS i Monday) akTER
-OON at 3 o’clock.
sFECLAL NOTICES.
Ok omd crier Feb. 1, IW, iKe bosks of meat
wrewaswl of all m the Mowrutu
Mvwb wsfi be opoM, or cat the rale af $1 a) an
kweA for the ok msertsow. No Special Notice
tnerrled for lees them $1 00.
NOTICE TO WATKKIAKKUA
Office Water Works, )
Savakxah. Oa., Nov. *B, I*l. f
The water will be shut off at nine (9) o'clock
THIS < Monday) MORNING on Henry street,
from West Broad to Cemetery street, for the
purpose of moving fire hydrants, and will be
off a few hours.
JAMES MANNING,
Superintendent.
PROCLAMATION.
Crry or Savannah, 1
Mayor's Office, >
_ , , Nov. H. I*l. \
*v hebeas. It is meet aod proper that we
should return tnanks to Almighty God for his
manifold biesiings, I hereby Issue this, my
ruiamation. appointing THURSDAY. Nov.
I*l, as a day of tnanksglving and prayer,
and 1 Invite my fellow citizens to lay aside their
secular vocations on that day and repair to
their respective places of worship, and give
thanks to Almighty God for the preservation of
health and the many blessings vouchsafed to
this community.
Given under my hand and the seal of tbe City
of Savannah this 21st day of November, I*l
•I Seal. I GEORGE J. MILLS.
I Acting Mayor.
Attest : Frank E. Rkbarer, Clerk of Coun
ctl.
Office of City Engineer, 1
Bava.vnar, Nov. 17, 1891. f
PROPOSALS
Will be received at the office of Frank E Re
barer, Ksq.. Clerk of Council, until IS *., (sun
time) WuDNESDaY, Nov. *5, l*a, for oaring
iwith sheet asphalt) Bull street from the south
side of Bay street to the north side of Congress
street; also the portion of Bt. Julian and Bryan
streets from the east side of Whitaker street to
the west side of Drayton street, all of which to
be done in accordance with plan filed in the
office of the Clerk of Council.
The city reserves the right so reject any or
all bids. For further information, apply to
W. J. WINN, City Engineer.
WALTHOIR A RIVERS,
REAL ESTATE AND COLLECTING AGENTS.
We have several very One residences In good
localities for rent.
FINE MIXED, MIXED CHOCOLATES,
BUTTERCUPS.
CARAMELS, CREAM PEPPERMINTS,
OLD FASHIONED MOLASES, at
SOLOMONS <8: CO’S.,
29 Bull Street, 1 63 Congress Street,
AGENTS FOR HUYLER’S CANDIES.
W. D. Champion.
FRUITS AAD PRODUCE.
100 Bbls. APPLES.
200 Boxes ORANGES.
100 Bbls. CABBAGE.
10,000 OOCOANUTS.
100 Bcncmes BANANAS.
300 Sacks POTATOES.
100 Bbls. ONIONS.
Raisins. Nuts, Beets, Turnips, Parsnips, Carrots,
etc , now lanJtog.
Our prices are always as low, If not lower,
than our competitors. Give us a call
A. H. CHAMPION'S SON,
THE JAPANESE MONKEYS
In our Bull street window oan be seen plainly
with the naked eye, and in addition, the nicest
line of Japanese Bronzes and Porcelains, decor
ated in solid gold, that has ever been in Savan
nah. These goods are new and fresh, just
from Tokioand inland towns of Japan.
BUTLER'S PHARMACY,
Bell and Conoress.
everything in season
AT
HEADQUARTERS.
Buck, Rice Birds,
Quail, Doves,
Ssipk, Tension Steax,
Woodcock, Oysters,
Open day and night.
FREID & HICKS.
Telephones4fl. Nos. 9, 11, 13 Market.
AUSTIN R. MY RES,
BROKER IN STOCKS AND BONDS,
114 Bryan Street,
Exeoutes orders on commission or buys out
right. Correspondence invited.
DR. M Dt-mvAU A non,
GRADUATE OPTICIANS
No. 23 Bull Street, Savannah, Ga.
If your eyes are not properly fitted with eye
glasses or spectacles, we desire the opportunity
of fitting them w ith glasses which wifi oorroct
any visual imperfection tnat may exist, or can
b? corrected by scientific means As specialists
we have fitted ourselves by a praotioal oouree of
study, graduating from Dr. C. A. Bucklln’s
School of Optics, New YorE. We are practloal
opticians, and make our own goods. New lenses
put in old frames while you wait. Oculists’
prescriptions a specialty, aad carefully Ailed.
No charge for examination
LADIES, ATTENTION!
My life is short on this earth, end as circum
stances are such as I must leave on Thanksgiv
ing day, you will kindly oblige me by calling at
J. J. JOYCE'S and tuke me home. lam will
ing to cjme dr.ssed or undressed, just as you
prefer.
A. TURKEY.
! CLOTHING.
SOCIETY EVENTS
Young Lad.es Hebrew Benevolent
Society’s Ball.
Tbs society gentlemen win be
rayiri In ail trie latest styUn (ua
purchase! of n *u,
APPEL& SCHAUL
j i^*s , ?Jsa!r b s
APPEL&SCHAUL
Fine Clothing and Furnishing Goods.
APPEL& SCHAUL
159 BROUGHTON STREET,
AMUSEMENTS.
SAVANNAH THEATER
TWO NTIGHTS
M a o*n U s^ y ;—-
SAVANNAH'S FAVORITE
Al. C. Field & Co.’s
famous
MINSTRELS.
35 MERRY MINSTRELS 35
PRESENTING A NEW ANO BRILLIANT
PROGRAMME.
Seats at Davi Music Cos Nov ;9
and*S attract,on: FKKD WARDE, Nov. 27
~~~ ~ EXCURSIONS. ’
Ciariestoo and Savanna!) h.
WILL SELL ROUND TRIP TICKETS TO
AUGUSTA, GA,
—ACCOUNT—
AUGUSTA EXPOSITION.
Tickets, Including admission coupon
to Exposition Grounds, sold daily, ff r in
Nov. lsttoUTth inclusive, limited to J J
November 30th. ' u
Tickets, including admission coupon
to Exposition Grounds, sold Tuesday ri ir
nnd Thursday of each week during I 3
Exposition, limit I days. * ' u
Daily trains leave Savannah 12:39 p. m ar
rive at Augusta 7:35 p. m ; returning, leave
Augusta 8:50 a. m., arrive at Savannsi
12:49p. m.
For tickets and further Information apply at
Bull street ticket office or at depot.
C D. OWENS, E. P. McSWINEY,
Traffic Manager. Gen. Pass. Agent.
BANKS.
THE GERMANIA II
SAVANNAH, GA.
CAPITAL, $200,000
In connection with ita general banking busi
ness it baa a
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT,
WHERE
4 Per Cent Per Annum
Is paid on deposits compounded quarterly. Da
poaitors of all claese* are solicited. With an
obliging tftaff of officers and conservative man
agement patrons and those desiring to deposit
with it may be euaured that their interests will
be carefully guarded.
OFFICERS.
HENRY BLUN, GEO. W. OWENS,
President. Vice President.
JOHN M. HOGAN, Cashier.
directors.
HENRY BLUN
GEO. W. OWENS, Attorney at La*.
P. BRENNAN, of Kavanaugh & Brennan.
IL yi. HL LL, of Dearing & Hull.
WIIsLIAM KEHOE, of Wm. Kehoe & oc.
AM3GN MOHR, of Mohr Bros.
DR. J. B. READ.
T. F. STUBBS, of Stubbe & Tison.
A. P. 80LOMON. of Henry Solomon A Sons,
Q M. RYAL3
IRVIN B. TIEDEMAX.of Geo. W. TiedemanA
Bro.
A. C. HARMON, Broker and Commission Mer
chant.
Jos. D. Weed, Jno. C. Rowland,
PRESIDENT. VICE-*R**lOtT.
J as. H. Hunter, cashier-
Savannah Bank & Trust Cos.
SAVINGS DEPT
AUDWS 4%
Deposits of $1 and Upward Received.
Interest on Deposits Payable quarterly.
DIRECTORS.
JOSEPH D. WEED, of J. D. Weed * 00.
JOHN C. ROWLAND, Capitalist.
C. A. REITZE, Exchange and Insurance.
R. O. ERWIN, of Chisholm, Erwin & dußlgnoc
EDWARD KAROW, of Strause * Cos.
ISAAC G. HAAS, General Broker.
M. Y. MACINTYRE, of M. Y. & D. I. Maclntyre.
JOHN LYONS, of John Lyons Cos.
WALTER CONEY, of Patterson, Downing * 00.
D. C. BACON, Lumber.
HARDWARE,.
Sjorti Gi
Lefever, Colt, Smith and
Parker Hammerless Guns.
Shells loaded with Schultz,
Wood and Dupont’s Powder.
Hunting Coats, Shoes and
Leggins.
'iWarlraft.
ASK the recovered
Dysiwntics. Bilious
sufferers, v.etims of
Fever aod Ague, the
mercural diseased
patient, bow they re
covered health,
cheerful spirits and
good app- lit,-, they
will ted you bv tar
ing S:as. ns Liver
RzGCLAT-R.
